The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-06-29
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Ard she the victor was elatc.
In other courts Srovc and won.
SO Love my loss did compensate.
There's now 10 parting net between.
,Tis love, fifteen.
In Chicago they throw no slipper after
the bride. They can't.
Whoever makes the fcwest persons un-
c;.sy is the best bred in the company.
Would it be proper to call an alley where
4 street fight has aiken place an allcSory?D
The only perpetual thing about perpetual
motion is its failure.
Contempt Of court-When the younger
brother makes faces at his sisters lover.
He is Il miss guided youth who does
everything his sweetheart asks him to do.
Nothing should appear at q cold collation.
which requires carving or cannot be easily
helped.
The choice of wife or husband is the
most serious thing that man or woman
mas to decide upon.
y 1G-year-old girl can soften and whiten
her hands by soaking them in dishwatcr
three time every day.
Fitz has a good-looking daughter who
he says will never marry a dude Dudes
usually dislike Miss Fitz.
A Russian poverb-Before you go to
war, pray once before you go to sea, pray
twice; before you take a wife, pray thrice.
The postage stamp is particularly unfor-
tunate. When a man wants to lick 1t lie
attacks Il heh;pd IFS hack
1t is question which is the stronger
card-the polcemans club or the hotel
clerk diamond.
Poor people are like oysters in one re-
Spect 4 number Of them have to sleep IN
the same bed.
Those who use our goods are very much
attached to them, is what porous COM
pany advertias.
Many men are said to make fools of them
selves when Nature is really the response
bic party.
\ man in London who does not talk
jubilee is suspected of having pockets full
of dynamite.
A business operated at loss is like an
empty pocketbcok, as, to use ;Acommon
expression, there's no money in it. ]"
Every sewing machine agent will posi-
lively assert that the machine he sells is the
best. That doesn't make it sew, however.
The cunring thief will enter q stable,
purioin several sets of harness, and depart
without leaving trace.
Speaking cf drinking it may &c observed
that the maa who 'c&n take it or leave 1t
alone generally takes it.
a man should never praise his wife's
Eonnet until he is sure she don't want
dress 20 match it.
\ correspondent wants to know chow
70 preserve tle hair. One way is to have
it worked inio a watch chain.
Reverend Alfred Coffee is the name of
Southern cdored preacher. II is TO be
hoped lie is; settled minister
There is one comfort at least for the man
who marries red. headed wife. He can
always look upon the bright side of life.
\ Connecticut baby has swallowed seven
hairpins and come up to the mark smiling.
He wants totry thimble now.
Don't yol dawnse. Fred?" ''No, dear
boy: I'm invited out for my facial express
sion.
Do not s;arch your table napkins. A
napkin that's not soft and pliable is mani
teS.ly unfit :or its purpose.
Marriage is the mother CT the world. 1t
preserves kingdoms and fills cities and
churches, ald Heaven itself.
vt picnic never use your best plate,
glass or cfina: so shall you avoid much
hcart-bu-nng and irritation of temper.
Absence makes the heart of host and
guest grow fonder; they relish one another
al the better for an interval of separation
There is said to be tree in New Guinea
which. When touched, knocks a man down.
1t must bes species of lockwood.
The man that wants the earth doesn't
seem satisfied when the grocer gives it to
him il the sugar.
When two dogs quarrel too long over the
sane bone a third dog is apt to come by
and cotton to it as his own.
IF you want tew git at the circumfer-
erce Of man examine him among folks;
but il you want tew git at his aktual diam
eter measure him at his tireside."
american women" says Jennie June
''stand at III. head for health, complexion,
taste and good temper" Who ever doubt
ed it?
When woman is very pretty one never
looks at heI dress; and when the dress is
very striking one forgets to look at the
woman.
There c;n be no surer proof Of low
origin, or CT an innate meanness of dlspo-
Siton, than to be always talking and think
ing Of being genteel
The ball is the paradise Of youth and
love When we have turned 40 we regard
it us wcarincss and a delusion, and de-
nounce it, perhaps, as fit only for fools.
Yes" said the small boy of the Latin
class, yes, lapsus may be the Latin for
slip in a book, but when mother laps us it
means L slipper
4 German statistician has discovered that
there are one million blind persons in the
world, not counting, of course, those in
love
An authority on such matters says that
woman may take mans hand, but must
not shake it. II she must shake something
she can shake the man.
YES remarked landlady, 1t costs
money to get knives sharpened every week,
but its much cheaper than buying tender
meat
Little Johnny, on being asked by lis
schooltcacher if ne knew what was meant
by cat par. replied that MA is always at
nv bc, b,. fo,,,o homo 1otp -
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